With firms such as Simmons & Simmons increasingly bragging about their carbon-neutral status, The Diary is impressed with those partners shunning the overseas sun and refusing to clock up the air-miles by taking their summer break in places like Devon or Cornwall. Not that they’ve all clocked up good karma for their troubles.

This column has previously reported on the holiday misfortunes of O’Melveny & Myers City capo Chris Ashworth, who came in for something of a culture shock upon joining the LA galacticos from Ashurst and was forced to cancel annual leave for the first time in 20 years.